60 Carlisle Indian School students enrolled with affiliation to the "Porto Rican" tribe according to the documents found at NARA and CCHS.  For explanation of these cites, go to the  STUDENT INFORMATION PAGE.

AGUARRO (AYARRO) / JOSE / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75 + NARA]
ALORES / JOSE / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
ARRUTIA / URRITIA (URRUTIA) / HENRIQUE JR (ENRIQUE) (EMRY) (HENRY) PORTO RICAN / [NARA75 + CCHS]
BALLESTERO / MANEUL HIDALGO / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
BARRELLI / ADELA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
BLANCO / ANTONIO / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
CALDERIN / FRANCISCO / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
CASTRO / MARIA M(ERCEDES:CCHS) / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
DE JESUS / LOUIS / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
DE JESUS / MIGUEL (MARTINEZ) / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
DEARCE / EMILIO PAGAN / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
DUCHESNE / CONCEBIDA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
ELIAS / FIDEL PUERTO / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
ESPENDEZ / ISABEL / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
FAGUNDO / RAMON LOPEZ / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
FERNANDEZ / JULIO / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
FIGUERO(A) / VICENTIS / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
GARNIER / MATILDA / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
GAUDIER / RAFAEL / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
GONZALES (CCHS:GONZALO) / ESPERANZA / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
GONZALEZ / FERNANDO / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
GONZALO / JOSE / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
HOHEB / JULIO A / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
LARA / CARLOS GALLARADO / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
MARTINEZ / LEVIA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
MARTINEZ / PROVIDENTIA (CCHS:PROVIDENCIA) / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
MEDINA / FELICITA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
MENENDEZ / JOAQUIN / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
MONTANO / SANTIAGO / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
MORALES / OLIMPIA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
MUSIGNAC / PEDROENRIQUE / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
NIEVES / DELORES / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
NIN / BELEN / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
ORRIOLA / NEMECIA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
ORTEGA / RAPHAEL / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
OSUNA / JOSE / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS]
PADIN / EMILIANO / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS]
PAGAN / ANTONIO JULIO OSCAR / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
PASARELL / EDWARD / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
PRADO / JOSE / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
RAMANAT / RAMON / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
REXACH / EMMANUEL RUIZ / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS]
REXACH / SAMUEL / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS]
REYAS / ANTONIO TORRES / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
RIVERA / ANGELA / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS]
RODERIGUEZ / CASTULA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
RODRIGUEZ (CCHS:RODRUQUEZ) / ANTONIO / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
RODRIGUEZ / JOSEC / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
ROSARIO / AURORA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
ROSELL / OSCARPAGAN / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
SANCHES (CCHS:SANCHEZ) / LOUIS / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
SANTANO (CCHS:SANTANA) / JUAN / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
SANTILLO (SANTAELLA) / MARIA / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS]
SCHULTZ / MELAGROS / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
SEGUI (CCHS:SEQUI) / PAUL / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS + NARA75]
SEIJO / FELIX / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
SULTANO / JUAN / [CCHS] (12/2/1898 Ind.Helper)
VALDEZATE / ZORAIDA I. / PORTO RICAN / [CCHS]
VASQUEZ / FERNANDO / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]
VELEZ / ELVIRA / PORTO RICAN / [NARA75]


         THE INDIAN HELPER
                ~%^%~
          A WEEKLY LETTER
             -FROM THE-
 Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.
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 VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, November 25, 1898  NUMBER 6
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  The Major told the school last Saturday night that we were to have a Portorican student before long.  Hurrah!  The Indians will give him a warm welcome and treat him well.
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          OUR SOLDIER BOY.
         ----------
  Joseph DuBray who has been through the Americo-Spanish war as a  member of the 6th Massachusetts, and who came home on a furlough a short time ago returning soon after to his regiment near Boston, is one of our Sioux boys.
  While here he told many interesting experiences.
  Among other things he said one evening in No. 10:
  "There were some soldiers on the Yale that took me to Porto Rico, who were just out of High School and never had been away from home before.
  They looked back at the land and said:
  'We'll never see that glorious old United States again.  Boys, we're going to be targets for the Spanish bullets!'
  And then they sang, 'Home, Sweet Home,' and I wondered what I was doing away off there from my friends."
  Another incident he related was this:
  "We were keeping guard, the night after landing on Porto Rico soil, and were stretched along something like a telephone.
  When one man heard a noise he would run to the next man, a hundred feet away, and give the alarm, and the second man would carry it to the next, just as quiet.
  We did not want the enemy to know where we were, of course.
  I heard a horse galloping up near me.
  I halt him but did not stop, so I fire; and I heard the horse fall and groan, and the next man on guard ran up to help me.
  I said; 'We ought to see if a man is hurt.'
  He said: 'They may be waiting to kill us.'
  But we went anyway, the poor horse was groaning so.
  We crept on our knees and it was so dark that we could not see anything, and my heart felt as though it was tumbling over and over clear up to my throat.
  We found the horse and put some shots into it and stopped its suffering, but we did not find any Spaniard there."
  "Once," the speaker continued, "During the march across the Island, a ranchman told us we might have all his chickens if we could catch them.
  Two soldiers were chasing a chicken.
  I saw it coming right toward me.
  I happened to have a good heavy stick in my hand, and I hit at it with that, then I fell onto it just exactly as I fall onto a football.
  I took that chicken to the cook and asked him to fry it for me and be sure and give me all of it, too, when it was done.
  We were sorry when peace was declared.  We were going to take San Juan so nicely.  We were just a day's march to San Juan when the news came.

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 VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, December 2, 1898  NUMBER 7
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  The young man from Porto Rico has arrived.  He is about 16, speaks very little English, but is fast making friends among the California and New Mexico boys who speak Spanish.  He will soon learn English.  In his first interview with Major Pratt he volunteered this information: "Me Boston; Me Concord; Me come Carlisle."  When he saw it snowing this week he thought it was ice cream, such as he had been treated to in Boston, coming down from the clouds, "but this no sweet."  His name is Juan Sultano, now an Americano.

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 VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, January 27, 1899  NUMBER 14
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       GENERAL EATON.
         ----------
  It is eminently fitting that the school teacher should follow
the soldier into Porto Rico.  If there is anyone who can
successfully light the lamp of learning in the island it should
be General Eaton, who started so successfully the same work among
the freedmen of the south at the close of the civil war. -[Omaha
Bee.
  General Eaton is one of Carlisle's staunchest friends, and we
are glad that he has been selected for such an honored position
as Commissioner of Education in Porto Rico, which he so eminently
fortified by experience and influence to fill.

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 VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, March 17, 1899  NUMBER 21
================================================
  We have another addition of a Porto Rican who was brought from
New Castle, this State, by Mr. James M. Hamilton.  The boy's name
is Jose Ayarro.  That he will do his best to obey orders was
evidenced the other day when the bell rang, without waiting to
fall in.  He had not learned that he was to go in line with the
others.  His one idea was to get to school as soon after the bell
rang as possible, and not until he arrived in his class room did
he find his mistake.

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 VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, March 24, 1899  NUMBER 22
================================================
  General Eaton, Commissioner of Education in Porto Rico, has
sent to Carlisle for Sloyd points, and wants to know if we can
take a party of Porto Ricans.

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 VOL. XIV. FRIDAY, April 7, 1899  NUMBER 24
================================================
   The announcement this week, that Miss Shaffner is to be
married was a cyclone of surprise from a clear sky.  Before the
HELPER is printed next week, Miss Ruth Shaffner, in charge of
girls, will become Mrs. Ruth Shaffner-Etnier.  Mr. Charles S.
Etnier, of Philadelphia, wins the prize.  On next Wednesday, Miss
Shaffner leaves Carlisle for Ponce, Porto Rico.  En route, she
will be married Thursday afternoon, at the house of a friend in
the City of Brotherly Love.  From there, at two o'clock the
wedded couple will take the train for New York, and the next day,
Friday, the 14th, will sail from New York.  Mr. Etnier has charge
of the books of the Porto Rico and Ponce Improvement Company,
recently organized on a large scale.  Miss Shaffner as a World's
Organizer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will find
plenty of work in the diamond of the Antilles.  Ponce is a city
of some forty thousand inhabitants, and the climate of the island
is charming and salubrious.  The affair is nearly as sudden for
the contracting parties as for their friends, for not until a few
days ago did Mr. Etnier expect to leave Philadelphia so soon.
Miss Shaffner's place at the school has been one of prominence
and good works, and she will be greatly missed by the girls whom
she has mothered so efficiently for seven years, and by the
school in general, which will loose a faithful, energetic and
loyal worker for all good causes.
     --------------------



Navarro-Rivera,  Pablo.  Acculturation Under Duress:The Puerto Rican Experience at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1898-1918. Published by the Centro Journal of the Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City, New York. For any use of this essay please contact the author, Dr. Pablo Navarro-Rivera, at Lesley University, 29 Everett St., Cambridge, MA 02138. Dr. Navarro's phone number is (617) 349-8158 and his email address is pnavarro@lesley.edu.



     "Porto Rican" Indian History Discovered at Carlisle Indian School
                                             By Rick Kearns



PORTO RICAN STUDENTS AT CARLISLE - FROM THE SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS, 1900 CENSUS RECORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS - compiled by William J. Myers.

           Census 1900
Ayarro, Jose / son/ M/M/1882/18/S/Porto Rico/Porto Rico/Porto Rico
     Ayano, Jose / Porto Rican/Porto rican/Porto Rican
Santano, Juan / son/M/M/1883/17/S/Porto Rico/Porto Rico/Porto Rico
     Santano, Juan / Porto Rican/Porto rican/Porto Rican
Sanders, Louis / son/M/M/1885/15/S/Porto Rico/Porto Rico/Porto Rico
     Sanders, Louis / Porto Rican/Porto rican/Porto Rican
Figuero, Vincentes / son/M/M/1880/20/S/Porto Rico/Porto Rico/Porto Rico
     Figuero, Vincentes / Porto Rican/Porto rican/Porto Rican

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THIS IS CARLISLE                                                        PI 1-3-3
p. 87     Zoraida Valdezate, Porto Rican (class 1904)
p. 88     Jose Osuan, Manuael Rexach, Angela Rivera, Antonio Rodriquez, Maria
          Santaella, [all Porto Rican - class 1905]
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INDIAN HELPER       14:41:3 (1899)   p.3
        Jose Ayarro, one of the boys from Porto Rico, had an experience with
     some bees, and when Mr. Jordan asked him what was the matter he said --
     "Fly scratch me," when the bees had stung him several times on the neck.
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RM&H Frid, 9/14/1900
        SENIORS JUNIORS AND FOOTBALLERS WHO CAME FROM THE COUNTRY TO BEGIN
     SCHOOL, SEPT. 3.
          ...Louis Sanches
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RM&H Friday, 9/21/1900
     RETURNED FROM COUNTRY HOMES SINCE THE 11TH
     ...Louis Sanchez
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RM&H August 30, 1901 & September 6, 1901
[unedited]
Senores Jose J. Rsnms and Lui~ Muuoz Rivera, are visiting the Porto Rican youth and the school. Senor Rivera is the editor of the PuertoRico Herald, New York.

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RM&H Friday, 9/14/1901
     MAN-ON-THE-BAND-STAND CORNER:
        Mr. L.C. Bortree, of Moscow, Deputy Sheriff, of Lackawana County,
     stopped off for a brief visit to the school, on his way home from
     Gettysburg, where he had been in attendance upon a Grand Army Convention.
     Mr. Bortree is a particular friend of Castulo Rodriguez, one of our
     printers.  His son is now in Porto Rico.  Castulo came north with him about
     a year ago, and so-journed for awhile in Moscow, before coming to Carlisle.
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RM&H Friday, 2/28/1902
     MOTBS:
        Two of our Porto Rican girls lost their trunks in Gettysburg Junction
     fire on Friday night......
        Manuel rexach has joined the printers' corps.
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RM&H Friday, 3/11/1902
     MOTBS:
        Angela Rivera, who went to New York, writes that she misses Carlisle
     friends very much.  She has to study hard, but she is a brave little girl,
     and will succeed.RM&H Friday, 4/4/1902
     MOTBS:
        Antonio Rodriguez has exchanged his profession of tailor of that of
     farmer of the summer, where he can build up in health, and gain some ready
     cash. --
        The Porto Rican girls are contented in the country and most of them are
     improving very much with their English; for this reason the ones that are
     here are anxious to go out to the country.--
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RM&H Friday, 8/20/1902
     MOTBS:
        Maria Mercedes Castro, one of our Porto rican girls, came in from the
     country a few days ago, and expects to go to the Bloomsburg Normal school.
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RM&H Friday, 9/19/1902
     MOTBS:
        Several of the Porto Ricans have "struck out" in earnest on English.
     Now they will begin to improve as they never have before.--
        Henry Smith, Levi Webster...Manuel Rexach...are the last printers in
     from the country to report for duty.
        The Porto Rican girls are anxious this year to learn good English, for
     they have meadowy  promise among themselves not to talk any word in their
     Spanish for the rest of this year.
        One of the Porto Rican boys says that American teachers are like
     molasses, but the Porto Rican teachers are like iron.  The Man-on-the-band-
     stand hardly knows whether to take the contrast as a compliment or not, for
     the opposite of iron is "soft;" it is believed, however, that he meant
     "sweet."
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RM&H Friday, 5/8/1903
     VOICES FROM THE COUNTRY.
        Angela Rivera writes from Bloomsburg where she is attending the Normal:
     "I do not find the work in either the dining room or school room too hard.
     I guess it is because I want to do it."
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RM&H Friday, 5/15/1903
     THE SENIORS GIVE THEIR LAST ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE SEASON.
        Zoraida Valdezate and Ella Petosky gave a scene from the Merchant of
     Venice, and did it very well.  In this scene George Balenti took the part
     of an attendant.
     ---------------------------------------
     FROM A PORTO RICAN IN A COUNTRY HOME
        Milagro Schulze writes to Col. Pratt in good English as follows:
          "I came up hear from Porto Rico two years next July and I did not know
          how to speak a word of English.  I go to school here in Kennett Square
          and I work hard at school and get promoted twice a year.  I feel sorry
          of the other Porto Ricans who don't stay in the country. If I did not
          have a strong will I never would have stuck this long.  I hope you
          will permit me to remain here until I graduate, then I will go home
          and teach my people the ways and customs of the northern people.
             My favorite studies are history and biography.  One of the great
          men I read about and admired very much was Abraham Lincoln.  I thank
          you very much for your kindness to me, and if I can never repay you
          with anything else I will with gratitude."RM&H 1903 (vol. 19, No. 29, p. 3)
     MOTBS:
        Printer Matilde Garnier has come in from the country to join her class,
     that of 1906.
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RM&H Friday, 4/10/1903
     Photo that we think may include Emmanuel Rexach
RM&H Friday, 4/17/1903
     Photo caption: Indian and Porto Rican sit down and study together.  Manuel
     Rexach, the Porto Rican is the boy on the right.  He is now attending
     Commercial College in town and boards at the school.
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RM&H Friday 2/26 and 3/4/1904
     (Entire issue copied)
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RM&H Friday, 8/25/1904
     MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
        Some of our Porto Ricans have enjoyed meeting with friends and relatives
     from their home, who came with the company of teachers that spent the
     summer in the States.  Among others were Julio Hoheb and Esperanza Gonzalo,
     who went to Phila.  The latter saw her sister but for a day, and she says
     by letter that it was one of the happiest days of her life.  The Porto
     Rican teachers were somewhat astonished to hear her using the English she
     does.  She saw Rafael Ortega and Enrique Rexach who graduated from
     Dickinson College.  The teachers have enjoyed America.  Esperanza is living
     with Mrs. Edge of Downingtown and has with her Ida Bruce.  They are in love
     with their summer home and country mother, and are very well.
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THE ARROW Thursday, 2/9/1905
     AMERICAN SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
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THE ARROW, 3/23/1905
     OUR SPANISH POSSESSION, by Antonio Rodriguez.
     (article copied)
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PHOTO class of 1904
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PHOTO class of 1905
     Not pictured:
        Puerto Ricans - Emiliano Padin, Manuel Rexach, Maria A. Santella, Angela
     Rivera, Jose Osuna.
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RM&H Friday, 6/19/1903
     MOTBS:
        Esperanza Gonzalo, of Port Rico, and Patrick Verney, of Alaska, have
     entered the printing office this week.  The ends of the earth do meet at
     Carlisle.
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PHOTO CLASS of 1905RM vol. V, no. 6, p. 266
        "A couple of days ago, Paul Sequi, Porto Rican and ex-student of
     Carlisle, returned to his native island after seven years' absence.  He is
     married and is the manager for Bartolome Sequi & Sons, funeral directors,
     with officers in San Juan and Ponce.
        "Manual (Emanuel) Ruiz Rexach, of the Class of 1905 of Carlisle, has
     been married recently and has a job as clerk in the civil service in San
     Juan, P.R.  Also Antonio Rodriguez of the same class has a good job as
     internal revenue collector on the island.
        "Henry (Enrique) Urrutia, ex-student of Carlisle, is married.  Henry
     passed the examination for first lieutenant in the Porto Rican Regiment and
     is now stationed at Henry Barracks, at Cayey, P.R.  Angela Rivera and Maria
     Santaella of Class 1905, Carlisle, are employed as teachers by the
     Department of Education.  So much for graduates and ex-students.
        "I am going to move my office from where I have been for just four years
     to the new modern Royal Bank of Canada Building, which will be completed by
     February 1, 1913."
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THE RED MAN, vol. 4, #1, p. 42 - 1911
        Providencia Martinez in a letter to Mr. Friedman from Porto Rico says
     that she will always be very glad she came to Carlisle.  She learned to
     like the Indians very much and had many helpful experiences.  She sends
     greetings to all her old friends.
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THE RED MAN, vol. 5, #1, p. 41 - 1912
        Jose Osuna, Class of 1905, writes to Superintendent Friedman from State
     College, Pa, under date of June 15, as follows:
        I believe my Carlisle friends will be glad to hear that I have just
     completed my college course.  I look back to my days at Carlisle with a
     great deal of pleasure.  In September, I hope to enter Princeton
     Theological Seminary in preparation for the Presbyterian ministry.
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THE RED MAN, vol. 8, #21, p. 100 - 1912
        Emilio DeArce, a former student who left school last year, has gone to
     Rochester, N.Y., to learn to be a chauffeur.
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THE RED MAN, vol. 6, #5, p. 206 - 1913
        Jose Osuna writes from the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J., that
     he is a student there.  Present address, 8 Alexander Hall.
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CARLISLE ARROW, January 10, 1913

“Henry (Enrique) Urrutia, ex-student of Carlisle, is married. Henry passed the examination for first lieutenant in the Porto Rican Regiment and is now stationed at
Henry Barracks, at Cayey, P. R. Angela Rivera and Maria San taella of Class 1905, Carlisle, are employed as teachers by the Department of Education.”
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CARLISLE ARROW, vol. 10, #1,  1913
        HOLDS RESPONSIBLE POSITION IN PORTO RICO.
        J. A. E. Rodriguez, a Porto Rican, who graduated from Carlisle in 1905,
     is now employed by the Insular Government of Porto Rico in the office of
     the Auditor as an expert accountant, with a compensation of $2,000 per
     annum and a per diem of $2.50 when on the road.  Mr. Rodriquez is also
     president and treasurer of the San Juan Base Ball Grounds Association.
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CARLISLE ARROW, vol. 10, #24, p. 4  1914
        Miguel de Jesus Martinez, one of our Porto Rican students, writes from
     San Sebastian, P.R., that he is postmaster and collector of internal
     Revenue.
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A reception was then held in Alumni Hall,
both in honor of General Pratt and to open
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THE CARLISLE ARROW -A WEEKLY LETTER TO OUR PEOPLE
Alumni Hall, and many of the Gen-eral’s
friends from town were invited,
together with the school employees.
The rooms were simply decorated in
aprofusion of ferns and potted plants.
A large picture of General Pratt
graced the walls, and Hopi plaques
and pictures of all the graduating
classes were placed upon the railing
in both the reception and banquet
rooms, and Navajo rugs covered the
floors. Here and there library-sized
tables were placed about and on each
of these a fern or plant reposed.
Refreshments of ice cream and cake
were served throughout the evening.
The following graduates were pres-ent
and in the receiving line:
Nellie Robertson Denny, Class 1890.
Charles E. Dagenett, 1891.
Emily Peake Robitaille, 1893.
Antonio Lubo, 1904.
Angeles Rivera, 1904.
Wallace Denny, 1906.
Elizabeth Baird, 1908.
Alfred DeGrasse, 1911.
Gustavus Welch, 1912.
Francis Eastman, 1913.
Stella Bradly, 1913.
Sadie Ingalls, 1913.
Fred Broker, 1914.
General Pratt remained until the
following morning when a breakfast
was served in his honor in the Do-mestic
Science room by the girls
under the direction of Mrs. Ewing,
who acted as hostess. Seated with
General Pratt were Mr. and Mrs.
Lipps, Mr. Dagenett, Mr. and Mrs.
DeHuff, Dr. and Mrs. Rentdorff, and
Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths.
About 10 o’clock a. m., General
Pratt, in company with Judge and
Mrs. Biddle, of Carlisle, motored to
Harrisburg, on his way back to
Washington, made happier, nodoubt,
by his visit to Carlisle as were they
who were left behind.

October 16, 1914 ARROW



Notes from Barb Landis:

Jorges Estevez was kind enough to send copies of all the information in the student folders of file 1327 at NARA.
I've read through the copies.  While skimming through these files some things jumped out at me, and so I share my
'discoveries' with you all - even though they will likely not be 'discoveries' to the historians who have been trading info with me.

   * On the circumstances of children's recruitment, how they were received,  and their sudden departure (in 1911?):

1911 - Supt. Friedman's letter to Figueroa :
           "...until the Porto Ricans were asked to leave...."
1912 -  "..was obliged to leave the school before finishing, as the government decided we were taking up room that rightfully belong to the Indians."
6/16/1911 letter from Providencia Martinez:
            "..We did not know that the school was a regular school for Indians when we went there because Miss Weekley never told us the real truth"...."although at first they hated us."

   * Majority seem to be Catholic - almost every child.

   * Five of the Outing Students were placed in Carlisle homes and one in Boiling Springs.  Don't know if this is unusual.  I was always under the impression that few children were placed that close to the school. Five were placed in Pt. Pleasant NJ.

   * Figueroa stayed in Carlisle, married a local girl and lived in town on North St..  There are photos of him as a very old man, in our community.  Yet, I've never heard stories about him from local folks although there are stories about 2 other Indian men who stayed and worked in Carlisle, Montreville Yuda and Richard Kesetti.

   * The tuition during Friedman's admnistration was $167.   In a couple of instances he suggests that students who want to pay their tuition or who want to send relatives can send in that amount to him.  This is an interesting suggestion that the controls are with Friedman and not the Indian Dept.  Gives hints as to how much control administrators had. Of  course, Friedman was dismissed after the Senate Investigation but I don't have any recollection of any financial scandal involving "Porto Ricans".

   * "Delores Nieves was a Negro Porto Rican."   She is the only one for whom there is such a notation.

   * In one of the letters, Friedman explains that after 1915 only children above the age of 16 were taken at Carlisle.   This was news to me.

Special thanks to Jorges Estevez for sharing.